This How-To explains how to setup a new IIS web server instance to host the Manageability Commander Web Edition (MCWE) for use on your internal network to manage Intel AMT devices.

7 Steps total

Step 1: Requirements

The MCWE needs to be hosted on an internal IIS web server that you configure and manage. If the server that you will use is the same server that is running Spiceworks Desktop, then you will need to ensure that the TCP ports do not conflict. If Spiceworks is running on the default port 80, then IIS should be configured to run on a different port (e.g. 8080). This document assumes that you are using separate servers for Spiceworks and IIS.

Step 2: Microsoft IIS Setup

In Control Panel, select ‘Programs and Features’. On the left side menu, select ‘Turn Windows features on or off’. Ensure that ‘Internet Information Services’ checkbox is selected, as are the ‘World Wide Web Services’, ‘ASP.NET 4.5’, ‘ISAPI Extensions’, and ‘WebSocket Protocol’.

Step 3: Test IIS

You should be able to browse to ‘http://localhost/' on the server. Do you see the IIS Welcome page? If not, you will have to bring up the ‘IIS Management’ tool to configure and troubleshoot.

Step 5: Copy Files from Zip Archive

Open the .zip file and look in the ‘ManageabilityCommander’ directory, and open the ‘IIS’ sub-folder. These are the files that you will copy to the web server folder in the following step.

Step 6: Paste files to the Web Server folder

Open up a File Explorer and navigate to C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ . If you are already hosting a website and have web pages that you don’t want to overwrite, please make a sub-folder named ‘mcwe’ and open that sub-folder. Paste the files copied from the .zip file’s IIS folder here. You should now see something like the following:

Step 7: Finish

If there were no problems, you should see a web page similar to the following.